Slavery and the Reparations idea

The reasons for changes for the worse in patterns affecting the Black community must be sought in our times. For instance, the large expansion of the welfare state and its accompanying nonjudgmental ideology lead to—in only a generation—to the disintegration of the Black family…

Answers to questions about slavery or race must be sought in facts, not in assumptions or visions, and certainly not in attempts to reduce matters of causation to only those which provide moral melodramas and an opportunity for the intelligentsia to be on the side of angels.